Eighth International Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM 2014), February 13-15, 2014, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, India
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Call for papers
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Authors are invited to submit papers describing original research of theoretical or practical significance to algorithms and computation. Papers should not exceed 12 pages for long papers and 6 pages for short papers in LNCS style. Papers must be labeled as either long or short and prepared using LaTeX/LaTeX2e. If the authors feel that more details are essential to substantiate the main claim of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Only electronic submission will be allowed. Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. They must not be submitted simultaneously to another conference with refereed proceedings or to a journal.

Pre-Workshop School on Algorithms and Combinatorics
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The school is being organized for PhD students and teachers in computer science and discrete mathematics during February 10-11, 2014. This school is organized jointly by IIT Madras and TIFR Mumbai. The confirmed speakers of the school from Switzerland and India will be put up soon.
Registration

There is no registration fee for the school. Arrangements will be made for speakers and 25 selected participants to stay in IITM guest house/hostels in the IIT Madras campus. All participants will be provided boarding and lodging free of cost.
Purpose

The school is aimed at fulfilling two purposes: (i) as a pre-conference school for WALCOM 2014, (ii) as an Indo-Swiss School, 2014
Organizing committee

CALL FOR PAPERS
ISAAC 2013
The 24th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
December 16-18, 2013
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
http://www.cs.hku.hk/isaac2013/

The 24th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2013)
will be held in Hong Kong, December 16-18, 2013. The symposium is intended
to provide a forum for researchers working in algorithms and theory of
computation. Papers presenting original research in the areas of algorithms
and theory of computation are sought. Papers in relevant applied areas are
also welcome.

Publication
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series.
Selected papers will be invited to special issues of Algorithmica and
International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications.

Paper Submission
The submission should contain a scholarly exposition of ideas,
techniques, and
results, including motivation and a comparison with related work. The main
text, including title, abstract, and references, should not exceed 11
pages in
LNCS style. An optional appendix should be used to provide proof details
that
do not fit in the main text. Submitted papers must describe unpublished
work.
Authors should not submit papers with the same results or essentially
the same
results that are accepted or published or under review by a conference with
refereed proceedings or a journal. Only electronic submission will be
allowed
and only pdf files will be accepted. It will be done via Easychair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isaac2013

At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper at
the conference as a registered participant.

Awards
A Best Paper and a Best Student Paper may be awarded. A paper is
eligible for
the Best Student Paper Award if all authors are full-time students at
the time
of submission. To indicate that a submission is eligible, please add the
phrase
"Eligible for the Best Student Paper Award" in the abstract.

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The purpose of the summer school is to give an introductory overview
of some new developments in the area, to present current research
directions, and to give students working in this or related fields the
opportunity to meet and to get to know each other.

The school is addressed to advanced undergraduate and graduate
students of Mathematics or Computer Science with interest in partially
ordered sets and discrete geometry. Basic knowledge in discrete
mathematics is assumed. The summerschool will be followed by a workshop
on the same topic (http://page.math.tu-berlin.de/~felsner/workshop.html).
Participants of the sommerschool are encouraged to stay in Berlin
for the workshop.

The summerschool is organized within the Research Training Group
"Methods for Discrete Structures".

In addition to the lectures, exercises will be solved in small groups
with solution sessions in the evenings. The language of the school is
English.

The summer school will take place at Doellnsee, a picturesque lake in a
natural reserve 60 km northeast of Berlin. The costs per participant
are EURO 150 and include transportation between Döllnsee and Berlin
and full board during the summer school.

The number of participants is limited to about 25. Applications can be
submitted using the form on the summer school website until June 15, 2013.

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

The Chair of Applied Mathematics at Helmut Schmidt University /
University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Armin
Fügenschuh, invites applications for two Research Associates (E-13
TVöD, between 3186 and 4598 EUR/month). The position involves research
in mixed-integer linear and nonlinear programming with applications to
industrial problems and teaching of mathematics for engineering
students (in German). Further details can be found at URL

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The 8th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2013) covers research in all aspects of parameterized/exact algorithms and complexity. Papers presenting original research in the area are sought, including but not limited to: new techniques for the design and analysis of parameterized and exact algorithms, fixed-parameter tractability results, parameterized complexity theory, relationship between parameterized complexity and traditional complexity classifications, applications of parameterized and exact computation, and implementation issues of parameterized and exact algorithms. In particular, studies on parameterized and exact computations for real-world applications and algorithmic engineering are especially encouraged.

IPEC 2013 will be part of ALGO 2013, which also hosts ESA 2013 and a number of more specialized conferences and workshops. ALGO 2013 will take place September 2-6, 2013, Sophia Antipolis, France

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract in English no longer than 12 pages (excluding references and appendices) using at least 11-point font, in LNCS-style, describing original unpublished research. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not permitted. Additional details as necessary may be included in a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Authors must submit their papers electronically. A detailed description of the electronic submission process is available at the symposium website. Program committee members (except the co-chairs) are allowed to submit papers.

Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the symposium, and to incorporate the comments from the program committee.

The program committee may award an Excellent Student Paper Award to one or more papers accepted to the symposium. A paper is eligible for the award if all authors are students at the time of submission, where a student is someone who has not been awarded a PhD before the paper submission deadline.

SPECIAL ISSUE OF ALGORITHMICA

Selected papers of IPEC 2013 will be invited for a special issue of Algorithmica.

EATCS-IPEC NERODE PRIZE 2013

The 2013 EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize for outstanding papers in the area of multivariate algorithmics will be awarded during IPEC 2013 to Chris Calabro, Russell Impagliazzo, Valentine Kabanets, Ramamohan Paturi, and Francis Zane. One of the awardees will give an invited talk at IPEC 2013.
http://eatcs.org/images/awards/nerode13-laudatio.pdf

The 8th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2013) covers research in all aspects of parameterized/exact algorithms and complexity. Papers presenting original research in the area are sought, including but not limited to: new techniques for the design and analysis of parameterized and exact algorithms, fixed-parameter tractability results, parameterized complexity theory, relationship between parameterized complexity and traditional complexity classifications, applications of parameterized and exact computation, and implementation issues of parameterized and exact algorithms. In particular, studies on parameterized and exact computations for real-world applications and algorithmic engineering are especially encouraged.

IPEC 2013 will be part of ALGO 2013, which also hosts ESA 2013 and a number of more specialized conferences and workshops. ALGO 2013 will take place September 2-6, 2013, Sophia Antipolis, France

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract in English no longer than 12 pages (excluding references and appendices) using at least 11-point font, in LNCS-style, describing original unpublished research. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not permitted. Additional details as necessary may be included in a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Authors must submit their papers electronically. A detailed description of the electronic submission process is available at the symposium website. Program committee members (except the co-chairs) are allowed to submit papers.

Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the symposium, and to incorporate the comments from the program committee.

The program committee may award an Excellent Student Paper Award to one or more papers accepted to the symposium. A paper is eligible for the award if all authors are students at the time of submission, where a student is someone who has not been awarded a PhD before the paper submission deadline.

SPECIAL ISSUE OF ALGORITHMICA

Selected papers of IPEC 2013 will be invited for a special issue of Algorithmica.

EATCS-IPEC NERODE PRIZE 2013

The 2013 EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize for outstanding papers in the area of multivariate algorithmics will be awarded during IPEC 2013 to Chris Calabro, Russell Impagliazzo, Valentine Kabanets, Ramamohan Paturi, and Francis Zane. One of the awardees will give an invited talk at IPEC 2013.
http://eatcs.org/images/awards/nerode13-laudatio.pdf

Objectives of the Workshop
Agent-Based Simulation Models are an increasingly popular tool for research and
management in many fields such as ecology, economics, sociology, etc..
In some fields, such as social sciences, these models are seen as a
key instrument
to the generative approach, essential for understanding complex social
phenomena.
But also in policy-making, biology, military simulations, control of
mobile robots
and economics, the relevance and effectiveness of Agent-Based
Simulation Models is
recently recognized.
Computer science community has responded to the need for platforms
that can help
the development and testing of new models in each specific field by
providing tools,
libraries and frameworks that speed up and make massive simulations possible.

The key objective of this First Workshop on Parallel and Distributed
Agent-Based
Simulations is to bring together the researchers that are interested
in getting
more performances from their simulations, by using synchronized, many-core
simulations (e.g., GPUs), strongly coupled, parallel simulations (e.g. MPI) and
loosely coupled, distributed simulations (distributed heterogeneous setting).
Several frameworks have been recently developed and are active in this field.
They range from the GPU-Manycore approach, to Parallel, to Distributed
simulation
environments. In the first category, you can find FLAME GPU, that
allows also non
GPU specialists to harness the GPUs performance for real time simulation and
visualization. For tightly-coupled, large computing clusters and supercomputers
a very popular framework is Repast for High Performance Computing (REPAST-HPC),
a C++-based modeling system. On the distributed side, recent work on
Distributed Mason, allows non specialists to use heterogeneous hardware and
software in local area networks for enlarging the size and speeding up the
simulation of complex Agent-Based models.

Paper submission
The papers will be presented in the regular format (10 pages LNCS format,
5 pages for short papers) and will be reviewed, anonymously by at least 2
reviewers of the Program Committee. Acceptance as regular/short papers will
depend upon scientific value, originality and relevance to the Workshop theme.

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SustainIT 2012 invites Work in Progress (WIP) papers showing innovative and original research in the areas of Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability. Submissions from both industry and academia are strongly encouraged. WIP papers are expected to report on early and emerging results and bring about novel research questions, approaches, and directions. The specific aim of the WiP session is to provide a forum for timely presentation, discussion and feedback for novel, controversial, and thought provoking ideas. All selected papers will be presented as posters in a special conference session. In addition, all selected papers will be included in the conference proceedings.

For this special session we solicit original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of energy-awareness for Internet-based systems, and the design of ICT solutions for eco-sustainability. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. WIP papers are expected to present early or ongoing research activities. Novel approaches and preliminary results are especially appreciated.

Submission implies the willingness of, at least, one author to register and attend the conference to present the paper. The organizers reserve the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference if the paper is not presented at the conference.

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Submission deadline is extended until 10 June 2013
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The 7th International Workshop on Reachability Problems (RP2013)
(25 - 27 September 2013, University of Uppsala, Sweden)
http://www.it.uu.se/conf/RP2013/

The Department of Information Technology will organize the 7th International
Workshop on Reachability Problems (RP'2013). This event will take place at
Norrlands nation in the heart of central Uppsala, 25 - 27 September 2013.

Papers presenting original contributions related to reachability problems
in different computational models and systems are being sought.
This will also be the occasion to review recent breakthroughs by
renown invited experts and survey emerging trends and emphasize
on key open challenges. Participants are kindly encouraged to discuss
on core scientific issues that need to be further tackled.

Authors are invited to submit a draft of a full paper with
at most 12 pages (in LaTeX, formatted according to LNCS guidelines)
via the conference web page.
Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into an
appendix to be read by the program committee members at their discretion.
Submissions deviating from these guidelines risk rejection.
Electronic submissions should be formatted in pdf.
Simultaneous submission to other conferences or workshops
with published proceedings is not allowed.

The Conference Proceedings will be published
as the volume of the Springer Verlag LNCS
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series and
distributed at the Conference. We plan also to publish
selected papers in a special issue of a high quality journal
following the regular referee procedure.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

The IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications
and Computer Sciences
Special Section on Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications

submit by September 20, 2013, published in June, 2014

The IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications
and Computer Sciences announces a forthcoming Special Section on
Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications to be published in June,
2014. The objective of the special section is to review and promote
recent progress in the field of discrete mathematics and its
applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- algorithms, data structures, and computational complexity
- graphs, networks, and matroids
- combinatorial optimization
- parallel and distributed algorithms
- discrete geometry, computational geometry, and computational algebra
- coding theory and mathematical foundations of cryptography
- probabilistic and number theoretic algorithms
- linear programming and mathematical programming
- computational biology and bioinformatics
- Petri nets and concurrent systems
- applications of discrete mathematics
- algorithm engineering
- quantum computation, quantum algorithm, and quantum cryptography

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Yoshio Okamoto, Assoc. Prof. <okamotoy@uec.ac.jp>
Dept. of Communication Engineering and Informatics
University of Electro-Communications
Chofugaoka 1-5-1, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585
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Amin Coja-Oghlan
FB 12 / Institut fur Mathematik
Postfach 111932 / Fach 187
60054 Frankfurt
Germany
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The yearly Cargese workshop aims to bring together researchers in
combinatorial optimization around a chosen topic of current interest.
It is intended to be a forum for the exchange of recent developments
and powerful tools, with an emphasis on theory. Other goals include:
the promotion of interactions between participants and discussion of
open problems. There are morning and afternoon sessions. Morning
sessions are dedicated to longer survey-type talks or open problems.
The afternoon sessions are dedicated to discussions as well as shorter
talks on related topics.

VENUE:

The 4th Cargese Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization will take place
at IESC Cargese, Corsica (France).

The workshop will have about 70 participants, including PhD students
and postdocs. The participation of the previous Cargese workshops was
restricted to invited researchers. For this fourth edition, we
encourage researchers interested in the workshop and who did not
receive a direct invitation, to submit a contributed talk on this
year's topic. Authors are kindly invited to submit an abstract (max. 2
pages) with a description of the work they would like to present : cwco2013@gmail.com.

Friedrich Eisenbrand (EPFL, Switzerland)
Michel Goemans (MIT, USA)
Monique Laurent (CWI, Netherland)
R. Ravi (CMU, USA)
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Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and
unpublished research in any area of Theoretical Computer Science or
Foundational aspects of Software Technology. Representative areas
include, but are not limited to:

Submissions will be in electronic form via the EasyChair site
(www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fsttcs2013) and are restricted to
12 pdf pages using the LIPIcs LaTeX style file (see
drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics/lipics-authors.tgz). Proofs omitted
due to space constraints must be put into an appendix to be read by
the PC members/reviewers at their
discretion. Accepted papers will be published as the proceedings of
the conference in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics
(LIPIcs) (see www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics) as a free, open,
electronic archive with access to all. Authors will retain full rights
over their work. Concurrent submission to other conferences or
journals is not acceptable.

For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, one of the
authors must commit to presenting the paper at the conference.

Poster Session for Ph.D. Students
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There will be a poster session for doctoral students. There will be a
separate evaluation process for this and the deadline for submission is
Sept. 23, 2013 and notification by Oct. 14, 2013. These will not be
included in the proceedings. Details to be posted on the conference
webpage.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS
ISAAC 2013
The 24th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
December 16-18, 2013
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
http://www.cs.hku.hk/isaac2013/

The 24th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2013)
will be held in Hong Kong, December 16-18, 2013. The symposium is intended
to provide a forum for researchers working in algorithms and theory of
computation. Papers presenting original research in the areas of algorithms
and theory of computation are sought. Papers in relevant applied areas are
also welcome.

Publication
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series.
Selected papers will be invited to special issues of Algorithmica and
International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications.

Paper Submission
The submission should contain a scholarly exposition of ideas,
techniques, and
results, including motivation and a comparison with related work. The main
text, including title, abstract, and references, should not exceed 11
pages in
LNCS style. An optional appendix should be used to provide proof details
that
do not fit in the main text. Submitted papers must describe unpublished
work.
Authors should not submit papers with the same results or essentially
the same
results that are accepted or published or under review by a conference with
refereed proceedings or a journal. Only electronic submission will be
allowed
and only pdf files will be accepted. It will be done via Easychair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isaac2013

At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the
paper at
the conference as a registered participant.

Awards
A Best Paper and a Best Student Paper may be awarded. A paper is
eligible for
the Best Student Paper Award if all authors are full-time students at
the time
of submission. To indicate that a submission is eligible, please add the
phrase
"Eligible for the Best Student Paper Award" in the abstract.

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The Chair of Theoretical Computer Science I at University of Jena invites applications for a

PhD student / postdoc position (100%).

The position is part of the project "Average-Case Analysis of Parameterized Problems and Algorithms", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Scope of this project is the average-case behavior of parameterized algorithms. Applicants should have an interest in at least one of the following topics:

The salary scale for the position is full-time TV-L EG 13 with a monthly gross salary between 3270 EUR and 4720 EUR depending on experience and previous position. The first contract will be limited to two years with the possibility of extension for another two years. The position can be started as soon as possible.

Applicants should have an excellent first academic degree in mathematics, computer science or related discipline. Applications should include a detailed CV, a copy of master (or PhD) thesis, a brief statement of research interests, and a list of publications (if applicable). Please also mention one or two references -- preferably one from the thesis advisor. Applicants interested in doing a PhD should also include a list of courses and grades.

Interested candidates should direct their questions and application before June 15, 2013 to Tobias Friedrich (friedrich@uni-jena.de):

Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Chair of Theoretical Computer Science I
Prof. Dr. Tobias Friedrich
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2
07743 Jena, Germany
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The workshop focus is on financial and risk management optimization models that are aimed for practical implementation and use by risk managers and finance practitioners. The goal is to bridge academic research in optimization and financial applications of optimization techniques.

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The DFG Research Training Group "Discrete Optimization of Technical
Systems under Uncertainty" at TU Dortmund invites applications for

10 positions for PhD candidates and 1 postdoc position.

5 PhD positions and the postdoc position start at 1. October 2013 and
the remaining 5 PhD positions start at 1. January 2014. Positions are
within the TV-L E13 German public sector pay scale and are offered at a
90% base. Contracts are given for 1 year and are extended to 3 years
after a successful evaluation at the end of the first year. The postdoc
position is offered for 2 years.

*Research Topics*

Topics of the interdisciplinary research are new approaches for discrete
optimization under uncertainty and their use for the optimization of
artificial systems in particular from the areas logistics, chemical
production techniques and IT systems. One key aspect is the development
of new application oriented methods and the inclusion of human decision
makers as part of the optimization process.

The research program is based on associated projects. An overview of the
research projects can be found under gkdots.tu-dortmund.de. Research is
done in interdisciplinary research groups and is accompanied with a
qualification program offering training in technical and soft skills.
The program is completed by scientific talks of internal researchers and
a short stay at a foreign university or research institute to support
the integration in the internal research community.

*Requirements*

Applicants for the PhD positions should hold an excellent master/diploma
degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering or psychology and
have to be interested in interdisciplinary and application oriented
research. Basic knowledge in optimization and modeling are helpful. Good
English language skills are mandatory. PhD candidates should finish
their dissertation within the time frame of 3 years.

Requirements for the postdoc position are an excellent PhD in one of the
mentioned areas. Applicants at the boundary between computer science and
psychology are of particular interest for the postdoc position. Possible
research areas are interfaces for optimization methods or the
combination of algorithmic and human approaches for optimization.

The Dortmund University of Technology aims to increase the percentage of
women in the involved faculties and therefore applications from women
are particularly welcome.

The same applies to qualified disabled people.

Applications should include the relevant documents (curriculum vitae,
list of publications if available, certificates of academic
qualifications), a reference letter written by a professor and an
accompanying statement mentioning one or two research projects where the
applicant wants to do her or his dissertation. Applications should be
sent within six weeks after announcement to:

Additional information about the research training group and the
research areas can be found under gkdots.tu-dortmund.de.
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The phase transition is a phenomenon observed in mathematics and natural
sciences in many different contexts. It deals with a sudden change in
the properties of a large structure caused by altering a critical
parameter. The phase transition in random discrete structures (e.g.
random graphs, random graph processes, random satisfiability problems,
Ising/Potts model, percolation) has captured the attention of many
scientists in recent years.

The goal of the fall school is to provide advanced master students, PhD
students, and early stage postdocs, who are interested in random
discrete structures and related fields, the opportunities

- to learn the state of the art results in the study of the phase
transition in various random discrete structures;
- to understand modern proof techniques that have successfully been
applied to the study of phase transition and its critical behaviour;
- to meet fellow colleagues in their early research career, which
possibly results in their future collaboration.

On top of this scientific and educational achievement, young
participants can experience the research environment of TU Graz as a
candidate place for their future research, and establish contacts with
other participants for their future collaboration. The language of the
school is English.

The fall school is supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) within
the Doctoral Programme "Discrete Mathematics"at TU Graz and by the
European Science Foundation (ESF) within the Research Networking
Programme "Random Geometry of Large Interacting Systems and Statistical
Physics (RGLIS)"

LECTURERS:

The lectures of the fall school will be given by the two experts in the
study of phase transitions in random discrete structures:

The course is addressed to advanced master students, PhD students, and
early stage postdocs, who are interested in random discrete structures
and related fields. The total number of participants is limited to 35.

There will be a limited amount of scholarships (of max. 500 Euro each)
available for PhD students or for advanced Master students in a field
related to the topics of the school.

APPLICATION:

Applications for participation only, with a short curriculum vitae and
scientific background, should be sent by 5 July 2013 to Sandra Wissler
<sandra.wissler@tugraz.at>

Applications for scholarship and participation, with curriculum vitae,
abstract of thesis, a research statement, and a letter of recommendation
(sent directly by a thesis advisor or a renowned mathematician in the
field), should be sent by 5 July 2013 to Sandra Wissler
<sandra.wissler@tugraz.at>

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First book to address the cell formation theory and its applications from
the perspective of a development of optimal, flexible, and efficient models
and algorithms for cell formation in group technology.
Addresses new methodologies to solve cell formation problems
Can be used as supplementary text at the graduate and post-graduate levels
in all fields of computational engineering.

This book focuses on a development of optimal, flexible, and efficient models
and algorithms for cell formation in group technology. Its main aim is to provide
a reliable tool that can be used by managers and engineers to design manufacturing
cells based on their own preferences and constraints imposed by a particular
manufacturing system. This tool could potentially lower production costs by
minimizing other costs in a number of areas, thereby increasing profit in a
manufacturing system.

In the volume, the cell formation problem is considered in a systematic and formalized
way, and several models are proposed, both heuristic and exact. The models are based
on general clustering problems, and are flexible enough to allow for various objectives
and constraints. The authors also provide results of numerical experiments involving
both artificial data from academic papers in the field and real manufacturing data to
certify the appropriateness of the models proposed.

The book was intended to suit the broadest possible audience, and thus all algorithmic
details are given in a detailed description with multiple numerical examples and informal
explanations are provided for the theoretical results. In addition to managers and
industrial engineers, this book is intended for academic researchers and students.
It will also be attractive to many theoreticians, since it addresses many open problems
in computer science and bioinformatics.
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